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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Supreme Court lets Trump keep wrongfully deported Maryland father in El Salvador prison, for now

The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking a judge’s order that called on Donald Trump to bring back an illegally deported Maryland father who was sent to El Salvador’s notorious prison.

After Trump appealed to the nation’s highest court hours before a midnight deadline to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a single-page order that pauses the lower court’s order indefinitely as a legal battle over his detention plays out.

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